News from October 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Chasib Hafedh Saadoon Al Fawadi, age 35, of Syracuse, appeared yesterday in federal court on an indictment charging him with making false statements in connection with his application to obtain a green card.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A married couple was sentenced to federal prison today for being part of a drug ring that distributed methamphetamine from Mexico in the Kansas City metro area, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - The posts are up, the paint is dry, and the signs showing Hanford Site cleanup successes are available for viewing.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
Release: RONKONKOMA, N.Y. - A new state-of-the-art advanced technology computed tomography checkpoint scanner (CT) that provides 3-D imaging has been installed and is in use at the Transportation Security Administration checkpoint at Long Island MacArthur Airport. The new technology provides critical explosives detection capabilities at the checkpoint and improves the capability for TSA officers to determine whether an item inside a carry-on bag is a possible threat.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - As the weather starts to cool down for the season, we all need to continue to be mindful of our surroundings while recreating on public lands. The week of October 4th is National Fire Prevention Week. The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) set this year’s theme as Serve Up Fire...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LA: All six sites of Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve as well as New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park will close beginning on October 6, 2020 at 5PM CDT, due to the threat of Hurricane Delta. No decision has been reached as to a reopening date.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: Concord, NH - The Rochester Police Department located and arrested “Fugitive of the Week", Reginald Trefethen last night, Trefethen, 27 years-of-age of Rochester, New Hampshire was being sought on a Rockingham County Superior Court warrant alleging that he failed to appear on charges of possession with intent to distribute fentanyl, cocaine and being an accomplice to the sale of fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - An indictment was unsealed today charging John David McAfee with tax evasion and willful failure to file tax returns, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant for the Western District of Tennessee. The June 15, 2020 indictment was unsealed following McAfee’s arrest in Spain where he is pending extradition.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Joel Malek, age 42, of Schenectady, New York, was arrested today and charged with possession of an improvised incendiary device, commonly known as a “Molotov cocktail," on June 5, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Daquan Dowdell, age 29, Terry Linen, age 28, and Deshawnte Waller, age 43, all of Syracuse, were sentenced to serve, collectively, decades in federal prison for violating the Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), announced Acting United States Attorney Antoinette T. Bacon, Thomas F. Relford, Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and Syracuse Police Chief Kenton Buckner.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Rojae A. Crosse, 23, Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to 5 months in prison for possessing a firearm as a felon. When imposing the sentence...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Nicholas Birdwell, 38, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge John L. Sinatra, Jr. to breaking into and larceny from an interstate carrier facility. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: King Salmon, AK - Katmai National Park and Preserve, With sizes rivaling buildings, freight trains, and airplanes, these super-fat-bears will soon be turning in their proverbial capes. Their nemesis winter continues its inevitable march and though these bears have courageously consumed copious quantities...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: Under the Trump Administration, the Bureau of Land Management has continued to embrace its sustained yield, multiple use mandate, expanding public access for recreation, conservation, and responsible energy development on public lands. Having not been updated since the 1980s and early 1990s, the BLM finalized new Resource Management Plans (RMPs) for Lewistown and Missoula on July 30, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: GREENSBORO, NC. -- U.S. Attorney Matthew G.T. Martin today announced $5,169,303 in Department of Justice grants to improve services for crime victims in the Middle District of North Carolina. The grants, awarded by the Department’s Office of Justice Programs, are part of over $144 million distributed to enhance the district's response to victims of crime throughout the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that charges were unsealed yesterday for five Luzerne County men, for various fentanyl, cocaine, and tramadol trafficking offenses, including fentanyl dealing that resulted in death. The defendants are.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: St. Louis, Missouri - Christopher Walton, 27, of St. Louis, Missouri, was sentenced to 46 months in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm. He appeared in federal court today before U.S. District Judge Henry E. Autrey.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: CONTACT: Barbara Burns. PHONE: (716) 843-5817. FAX #: (716) 551-3051. BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Nicholas Birdwell, 38, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge John L. Sinatra, Jr. to breaking into and larceny from an interstate carrier facility.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau released a from for the 2019 Annual Survey of Public Pensions (ASPP). The ASPP provides revenues, expenditures, financial assets and membership information for defined-benefit public pension systems. The file provides detailed actuarial data for state and locally administered defined-benefit public pension systems in the ASPP.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man convicted of Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person was sentenced on October 5, 2020, by Chief Judge Roberto A. Lange, U.S. District Court.
